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"Bojewyan is a small village near St. Just in Cornwall, England. At the time of the painting local farmsteads were falling empty because they were uneconomic. Lanyon saw this as a serious threat to the region. His painting contains hints of a...

"Vassily Kandinsky was a prominent member of the Bauhaus faculty from 1922, and he remained until 1933, when it was closed by the Nazis. His paintings of that period reflect the geometric angularity he espoused as part of the Russian avant-garde in...

Dining room of Brent Arnold, Jr. home in Louisville, Kentucky. Polished rectangular table with four chairs; two more chairs at wall. Fireplace with porcelain on mantle. Sideboard with silver, and octagonal mirror above. Above the doorway there is a...

Woodbine, home of Brainerd C. Lemon, at Newburg Road and Bashford Manor Lane, Louisville, Kentucky. Dining room. Polished oval table with silver tureen and candlesticks and eight chairs, plus two chairs and a small child's chair also in the room....

Dining room in home of Isaac F. Starks at 2011 Woodford Place, Louisville, Kentucky. Polished round table with flower centerpiece and two chairs; three more chairs at walls, two of them under dark-draped windows at back of room which are between a...

Entrance hall of Brent Arnold, Jr. home in Louisville, Kentucky. Angular stairway with a statue on a pillar at its corner. Two perpendicular doorways at left have semicircular windows above with geometric panes. Semicircular side table with...

Sun porch in the home of R. S. Reynolds on the north side of Woodbourne Ave. east of Valletta Lane, Louisville, Kentucky. Carpeted sunlit room surrounded by windows with geometric top sides. Chair, sofa, and rocker at left. Round mirror on center...

Poultry Building, Old Kentucky State Fairgrounds, Louisville, Kentucky. Light, one and two story building includes two small towers with geometric cutouts near top. Telephone poles, grass, and a few small trees. The Old Kentucky State Fairgrounds...

Springfield Courthouse, Kentucky. Corner view of the Springfield courthouse edged by cars and trees. It is a two-story light brick fairly square building with a small porch and a pyramidal roof that rises to a geometric tower with "Erected 1816"...

Anchorage, Kentucky depot of the L. & N. (Louisville & Nashville) Railroad. The wooden building, viewed from its side, features geometric detail and a leaded-glass window. At left, behind foliage, a metal frame supports a metal ring and a pipe.

As for myself, my family and I fled out of Berlin in 1949 and I, having lived in West Germany, Sweden, England, later immigrated to the U.S.A. and to Canada in 1957. This country has been my home for the last 26 years and Calgary has been my home...

Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: boy, resting foot on stool, writing numbers on slate; cat; number 26; geometric figures of triangle, half-circle, cone, and hexagon, each circumscribed with other geometric figures; hat with short brim,...

Boy and girl work on a snowman. The boy holds a shovel full of snow while the girl arranges holly on the snowman, which looks like Father Christmas. A house and pine trees are in the background. This scene is an inset on the card. Geometric designs...

Star on a field of pine branches, surrounded by geometric shapes that resemble Christmas ornaments (balls, bells, etc.). The primary content of the card is a poem: If you are a-wishing me Christmas delights / Half as hard as I'm wishing for you, /...

"The work consisted of a triangular gauze filter stretched across a corner into which lumps of fat had been packed. Apart from alluding to physical metamorphoses brought about via osmosis, processes of refinement and purification were evoked. In a...

"In this monumental work of 1937, Guernica, Picasso combined Analytic and Synthetic Cubist forms with several traditional motifs, juxtaposing them in a new Surrealist way. The combination serves the political message of the painting - namely,...

Elizabeth Daingerfield, horse breeder, with Man O' War, here 12 years old, at Hinata Farms near Lexington, Kentucky. Man O'War's torso is pictured as he stands with groom John Buckner, who wears a warm-up jacket and hat and holds the bridle, and...